New Earth Headcanon

Ages included for mecha will be comparative human ages (because robots are OLD)

Autobots:

Name: Aureus, Autobot, he/him

Age: 25

Height: 18′

Alt Mode: Futuristic SUV with police flashers on the roof

Frametype: Praxian

Occupation: Security officer

Appearance: Aureus is a tall, broad-shouldered-but-not-overly-muscular Praxian mech. He has navy blue armor with silver pinstriping along the edges. His panels are navy blue also, with a thick horizontal silver stripe running through the middle. Security emblems adorn the middle of the stripes. Subtle blue biolights highlight his exposed protoform under his armor. Aureus keeps his armor spotless and polished.

Bio: Aureus has worked very hard to become a high-ranking security officer. An apt warrior with sharp intellect, Aureus strives to guard the Autobots on the battlefield and at home. Aureus takes Red Alert’s security doctrine and administers it with an iron fist. He ensures that all Mecha have a place to sleep, food to eat, and he also helps with shift assignments. Aureus was college-age when Praxus was bombed; after witnessing the bombing and the awful military might of the Decepticons, Aureus sided with the Autobots. He is often found guarding the medbay. A closely guarded spark, Aureus does not let many Mecha see his inner, softer side. He easily maintains a facade of stoicism and professionalism to all but his few close friends.

Relationship: Currently dating Clara, a human female

Gentle Sky

Mother to Drifting Clouds, Gentle Sky is a tender, loving femme. Very passionate about healing others, she strives to instill this passion in others. Any mecha who receive her care often come back to visit solely for the purpose of conversation. Gentle Sky was taken during a village raid and raped, but she managed to escape and found her way back to the Neytek. She has raised Drifting Clouds alone all these years, but has never let it phase her.

Running Hare

The eldest healer in the village, Running Hare can be a bit overbearing when first meeting her. With a slightly darker tinge to her skin, she is easily picked out from the crowd. Very gentle with patients, she has very diligently served the Neytek people. Having never mated, she treats her fellow healers as her children, personally overseeing much of their training. Her eyesight is slowly fading, but that does not stop her from working.

Drifting Cloud

A little shy, Drifting Cloud never wanted to go off fighting with the other mechling so - he followed his mother, Gentle Sky to her teachings. After learning as much as he could, Drifting cloud asked to be one of the village healers - Running Hare tested him, and he passed with flying colors. With a good bedside manner and a sharp eye for herbs and their properties, Drifting Cloud is a valuable healer to the Neytek.

Sweet Flower

A gentle and loving Gardner, Sweet Flower is one of the femmes that began the community garden. She has a way with plants and small children, and can often be found with her two twin babies strapped to her sides. Mated to Dusty Path, she knows some basic medicine to aide his wounds.

Bright Stars

A maturing femme, perhaps twenty or so, she spends much time with Star Watcher, learning her tricks and ways with magic. Bright Stars also acts as a caretaker to Star Watcher, hunting and supplying her with food, fresh water, and coverings for nighttime. A bright femme, she and Star Watcher banter throughout her lessons.

Morning Dew

A newly matured femme, Morning Dew is good with herbs and poultices. She has no knowledge of weapons or how to use them, and would rather heal broken ties than fight about them. SHe is hardly passive though, and gives her work 100% of her effort.

Star Watcher

Dusty Path

A strong, muscular, well-grown warrior, Dusty Path is one of the more important warriors of the Neytek people. He is a strong hunter, and wears a male lion’s skin (he killed the lion). Very strong, when he is not acting as a warrior or sentry he is hauling logs to be split fo firewood. His body is well used, looking slightly ragged. He is mated to Sweet Flower, and is completely wrapped around her little finger.

Fierce Demon

Fierce Demon’s name comes from a fight he won as an adolescent hunter. While he was gathering snares for rabbits, a fire-breathing Ikran drake came from above and caught him in its talons. Lifted off the ground, Fierce Demon fought to free himself, and eventually he fell back to Earth. He broke a leg in the fall, but it healed without incident. Now scarred from fire and widened from the experience, Fierce Demon is a tough fighter with an ikran pelt, instead of a lion’s skin, on his back. Fierce Demon is highly sought after by the village femmes, but he is bound to help his mother through her time of growing-older, as she was injured during the Great Battle of the Plains and requires near-constant attention.

Shadowed Creek

Mother to Fierce Demon, Shadowed Creek has led a tough life. Born a few years before the Great Battle of the Plains, she was funneled into the function of a warrior, where against her will she learned how to fight and kill. She was injured greatly during the war, receiving a near-mortal wound to her stomach. This wound never healed correctly, so she has trouble walking and digesting certain foods. Her son, Fierce Demon, is more than willing to help her, and he is by her side day and night. A gentle spirit, Shadowed Creek enjoys watching the village children play.

Blown Leaves

Born on Semiramis, Blown Leaves remembers autumn, when the leaves fell in bright colors. Mated to Cold Woods, she is a strong warrior; she was required to fight during the Great Battle of the Plains, an ongoing ‘war’ that has lasted most of her life. The past couple decades have been peaceful, and she has been free to branch out with motherhood, taking care of her two son, Blue Tree.

Burning Sun

From the same era as Rough Stone and Broken Ground, Burning Sun remembers life without water. He always ensures that his family has plenty to drink, and he has personally overseen the installation of more wells around the village. A caring, but stern father, he provides a guiding hand for his son and daughter. Burning Sun has the markings of burns down his back and sides, from when he was left out in the sun as an infant and developed deep sunburns.

Cold Woods

Father to Blue Tree and mate to Blown Leaves, Cold Woods has high expectations of his son. With the Great Battle of the Plains now long past, many of the village’s young mechs do not believe a strong fighting warrior group is needed, so many are becoming hunter- gatherers. Cold Woods had hoped for Blue Tree to become a warrior, but when his son decided to become a gatherer, Cold Woods became even colder in demeanor. Always a stern mech, Cold Woods lives his life directing others to do as they are told. He and Blown Leaves were born upon Semiramis, where the Neytek sent the femmes and many healers during the Great Battle of the Plains.

Roaring Wind

Roaring Wind is a strong warrior, and performs most of the behind-the-scenes work of the warrior group. He ensures that all weapons are repaired and that all of the other warriors have enough supplies to last through a battle or an expedition into the Savannah.

Flowing Water

Flowing Water is Rain Dancer’s best friend. They have played together since birth, and as Flowing Water grew up he developed stronger feelings for her. When Rain Dancer went away to train to become an Ambassador she met several new Mecha. Flowing Water refuses to believe that she might not actually love her back, and he strives to impress her with gifts and his ample talents with hunting. The ideal mech, Flowing Water is handsome, strong, and very talented with numerous weapons.

White Rain

White Rain was born during the monsoon season, and learned all of his skills from his father before his father died in a fight with another tribe. White Rain is somewhat interested in finding a mate, and he looks through the bush when he ventures out as protection in a hunting party.

Falling Fire

A fiery-spirited, brave warrior, Falling Fire is a master of spears and bows alike. When he is not out sparring with his twin sister, Blazing Rain, he is tinkering with how weapons are made - he has a prototype crossbow in the makings, which shoots thick, stocky arrows.

Blazing Rain

Twin to Falling Fire, Blazing Rain is excellent with spears and bows, just like her brother. Falling Fire is training her to use the crossbow, and she suggests edits to its design. Falling Fire and Blazing Rain together help train the up and coming warriors. They have never thought of splitting up and mating, and it is rumored that they have mated in secret.

Rough Stone

Growing up in the same time as Broken Ground, Rough Stone is harsh in his ways when he is alone, but with people he is a gruff kind of happy. The second of Storm Bringer’s personal guards, he helps to keep Broken Ground in place. Rough Stone desperately searches for a mate, but none of the village femmes seem very interesting to him.

Fierce Dog

Coming from the era of Storm Bringer’s father, Fierce Dog was a mighty warrior in his time. He was in the Great Battle of the Plains, and was injured in the fighting. Missing half of his left arm (mid-bicep down) and the side of his face (left), he looks quite frightening - but he is one of the friendliest, humorous mechs, and he loves to tell jokes and stories to the village children. His mate was killed in a village raid; he killed and ate the attacker, then hung the attacker’s hide in his hut.

Grey Fog

An older, gentle mech, Grey Fog is an excellent scout, light and fast on his hooves. Good with a spear and a bow, he is a reliable mech with many acquaintances, yet few friends. Newly mated to Golden Wind, he is patient with her trials and errors, and he loves her deeply. Long of leg, he towers over most Mecha in the village.

Deep Water

A contemplative mech, Deep Water is a thinker. He wonders about the universe, existential questions and the reason why the Titans (Mecha) are here. A strong swimmer, he is also strong enough to wrestle crocodiles and win. He is also one of the only Mecha from the village to see an elephant herd up close.

Broken Ground

A rough-mannered mech, Broken Ground lives to work and kill. Born at a time of great drought, he grew up in a rough, otherworldly time. Slightly older than Storm Bringer, he can remember the previous chief. Broken Ground does not like to bend to authority, doing so only under pressure or if his chief orders him directly. Broken Ground is a solitary bachelor.

Red Clay

A sculptor in his old age, Red Clay is a friendly mech who sculpts toys for the village children out of clay. Red Clay has a Bumblebee back right leg, which he has bound up against his side. Red Clay’s mate died in a village raid long ago, and he visits her graveside often with fresh flowers.

Split Tree

A slender mech, Split Tree is an adequate warrior, and an all around quiet mech. He makes bows for the mechs still in training, and helps teach them to shoot. Cautious around water from a bad run in with the river as a young person, he lives on the very edge of the village, furthest away from the river’s edge as possible. Mated to Cool Evening, they are trying for children. Biologically, he has a “dry spark”, AKA no innermost energon, and is naturally sterile.

Strong Heart

Woven Grass

An older femme, she often can be found weaving baskets in the community garden, which she trades and sells in her small booth. Light silver in skin color and eye color, she is full of life experience and wisdom. Often, she wears a leather halter top, fitted to her body. Still undated, she lives alone and often spends her time in solitary, apart from the market times and work in the garden.

Golden Clouds

Daughter of Sprouting Wildflower, she will grow up to be a hunter- gatherer like her older brother, Dawning Sun. Golden Clouds is softspoken and easy going, and gets along with everyone she meets. She especially enjoys spending time with Red Clay, and watching him sculpt little toy animals for her to play with.

Swift Deer

Light and fleet-footed, Swift Deer hunts with a bow. Able to run as fast as the antelope and gazelle she hunts, Swift Deer always brings home the meat. She does not know where she was born, for she was found in the grass as a small child. Swift Deer is in the prime of her life, and seeks a mate among the eligible village mechs.

Sprouting Wildflower

Mate to Burning Sun, Sprouting Wildflower is a gentle, loving femme. Burning Sun is very harsh outwardly, but reserves his tenderness for her. Sprouting Wildflower has been known to press flowers and make arrangements for the dead. She also is very knowledgeable about which kinds of flowers are to be eaten... and which should not. Sprouting Wildflower often helps the healers by bringing them flowers to be used in ointments and other treatments.

Lone Hunter

Lone Hunter is an older mech, and ventures out alone to hunt and gather, much like Dripping Honey. Lone Hunter has been to Semiramis, and returned with several pounds of obsidian to be worked into arrowheads and spearheads. He often returns dragging a water buffalo as well, and bears many scars on his legs from fights with lions and hyenas to protect his meat.

Blue Tree

Blue Tree is a maturing young mech, and he is a strong Hunter. Afraid of lions, he has not successfully passed his test to become an official member of the Neytek, but strives to better himself every time the test comes around. Son of Cold Woods, he is often looked down on by his father at being a failure (since Blue Tree cannot complete the exam).

Sweet Grass

Sweet Grass is an old femme from the time of Storm Bringer’s grandfather. She knows when and where to pick grasses so they are tender and succulent, and she remembers the way to the elephant breeding grounds. Having taught everything she knows to up and coming gatherers, Sweet Grass is surrounded by loving family. Her mate was killed in the Great Battle of the Plains.

Dawning Sun

A childhood friend of Rain Dancer, Dawning Sun studies hard to become a hunter-gatherer. His father, Burning Sun, has long pressured him to become a warrior, but Dawning Sun is too happy and carefree to worry about killing other centaurs. Dawning Sun plays with his little sister, Golden Clouds, when he is not learning how to hunt. Golden Clouds idolizes him, and wishes to one day be a hunter too.

Black River

A childhood friend of Rain Dancer, Black River successfully passed his hunting exam early on, and he supplies the village with antelope and other fresh meats. An excellent bow hunter, he is able to best anyone in the village. A lover at heart, he strives to become a strong mech in willpower so as to become a suitable mate.

Drifting Blossom

Gentle, calm, and collected, Drifting Blossom is a middle-aged femme with very capable spear skills. She helps to make spearheads. Drifting Blossom begins her day meditating, and ends it the same way. She lives on the edge of the village in a quiet place where her meditation will not be disturbed. Drifting Blossom found a sword in the mud near the river and secretly trains with it in her hut.

Dim Woods

A hunter-gatherer in training, Dim Woods spends most of his time studying herbs and edibles with Warm Hearth. Warm Hearth is more than eager to give his knowledge on to Dim Woods, and encourages him to learn how to hunt too. Dim Woods is unsure about killing animals, so he shies away from hunting.

Cool Evening

A gentle, quiet femme, she gather herbs and other wild plants for the healers and other village people. Mated to Split Tree, they have been trying for children, but to no avail. Biologically, Split Tree is naturally sterile, but this information is not known to the Neytek. Cool Evening has been praying fervently and consuming fertility herbs.

Misty Sky

Misty Sky is a good fisher. She can use a spear, and she has played with nets as well. The making of the Nets is difficult, however, with the grasses and reeds available, nets are not sturdy and the river often can destroy the net by simply tearing it apart. Misty Sky usually ends up with extra fish that she smokes trades at market. Misty Sky is mated to Warm Hearth.

Dripping Honey

Having mastered the technique of harvesting honey from beehives, she supplies the village with this food. She is gone often, searching for hives to harvest. She has no mate and no children, and her sires have long since passed.

Golden Wind

A bright young femme, she is newly mated to Grey Fog. She is built small and slender. A quiet gatherer, she personally met Grey Fog while gathering food. She decided to become his mate after a year and a half of courting, and is still becoming accustomed to his presence in the house. Timid and shy, she prefers cuddling to entertaining guests. Small for her age, Grey Fog and Golden Wind make an almost comical relationship because of their size differences.

Warm Hearth

A caring mech, Warm Hearth enjoys cooking. Not strong with a bow or spear, he relies on his mate, Misty Sky, to hunt for him. Warm Hearth is a good forager, though, and supplies much of the village with grasses, berries, fruits, nuts, and other edibles he can find nearby. Warm Hearth wants to start a family, but Misty Sky is not ready to give up her adventures yet.

Free Bird

A warrior in training, Free Bird works diligently to complete his warrior training and fully become an active part of the Neytek tribe. Excellent at spear fishing, he has “mastered” the art of leaping off one riverbank, spearing a fish, and landing on a rock in the middle of the river. Free Bird is very willing to please to get ahead on his training.

Orchid Bloom

Daughter of Dusty Path and Sweet Flower, Orchid Bloom will grow up to become a competent spear hunter.

Tender Fern

The Neytek Chief is Storm Bringer. Fun-loving as a young mech, Storm Bringer’s humor has only grown with age. He is a second-generation mech; his father was son to a slave escapee. Storm Bringer’s build is blocky like a draft horse, and that lends him great strength. A master bowman, his bow is nearly as tall as he is. His son and mate was killed in the earthquake. Storm Bringer is capable of mixing a potion within his hut to show the immediate future. 

Storm Bringer’s mate is Earth Beat. A kindhearted femme, Earth Beat took care of the Neytek as if they were all her children. A master healer, only the most complicated of internal workings were beyond her skills. It is rumored that if she had received the same education as Ratchet she would be on his level of expertise. Earth Beat strove to teach others her knowledge so that they too could heal others. Earth Beat was killed in the earthquake caused by a rogue Decepticon bombing test. Her infant son, Fleeting Steps, was also killed.

Fleeting Steps was Rain Dancer’s infant brother. He perished with his mother under a hut’s collapse. If he had survived to adulthood, he would have taken Storm Bringer’s place as chief of the Neytek. 

The large huts (big brown circles) are used for families, ranging from either a newly mated couple to a couple and their children. The Neytek typically have two or three children. The small huts (smaller brown circles) are generally reserved for single Mecha and warriors whose mates have passed on.

Every large hut has their own cooking fire that continually burns. For the single huts, fires can be made within the hut (since there is a hole in the roof for smoke to escape from) or those Mecha can use the large fire behind the Chief’s hut. The fire behind the Chief’s hut is free for everyone to use, and it is also a meeting place for the whole village to gather around when the Chief needs to make an announcement.

The green spaces are gardens. The largest households (the ones surrounded by brown ovals) have their own gardens. The large garden space on the west side of the village is for the whole village to use. The brown ovals are walls, made from mud, straw, and some pieces of stone. The huts are constructed in a similar way. Their circular structure helps keep the roof upright (similar to the physics needed for igloos). The roofs are typically long grasses and fronds from trees.

The brown rectangles are market stalls. Every new moon, the Neytek gather for a type of market where they share the goods made in the community. Pottery, food (such as vegetables, meet (smoked and some fresh) and some baked goods), leather harnesses and bags, jewelry, and weapons (bows/arrows, spears) are often traded at the market. The Neytek do not use much in the way of currency, so when other tribes come by for trading they just trade goods.

The main grass plain is the Kasa Savannah. The Kasa covers Alaba in drought-tolerant grasses. Even if the grass is alive, it still is highly flammable. Thunderstorms easily spark the grass into flame and the fires have been known to burn whole swaths of the continent at a time.  Fires cannot easily jump the Costoña river because it is quite wide. A quarter mile across at its widest, the Costoña carves a path through Alaba. Inhabited by fifteen foot+ crocodiles and hippos the size of Old Earth elephants, the Costoña can only be crossed at shallow, narrow places.

The original Decepticons who started on Old Earth began a base of operations on Africa. This base is located below Semiramis, a cluster of mountains surrounding one larger mountain. These mountains are used for mining. They have been mined so extensively that any earthquake above a four on the Richter scale could knock them down. Inside, the tunnels are held up by metal beams which provide a kind of skeleton for the mountains to rest on.

The villages on the map (#1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are villages of centaurian Mecha. These Mecha with a centaur’s body as an alternate form were used often by the Decepticons for mining. As the mines were depleted of minerals and useful elements, the ‘working day’ for the miners was increased. When working days were lengthened a third time (to appease Megatron’s demands for more production) the majority of the centaurian workforce rebelled and went rogue. Megatron believed without a steady supply of energon to feed them these Mecha would either starve or return, but he was wrong. These Mecha found their way to a small human village in the Alaban bush and from there, learned the very basic hunting/survival skills needed to survive on the Savannah. Now, the centaurian bush Mecha deny any connection they may have to Mecha. Now, the tribes are second and third generations away from the miners, so they do not recognize themselves as Mecha and they do not know how to transform. There are five distinct groupings of these centaurian Mecha. I have mainly focused on the Neytek tribe as of yet.

There are many, MANY species of fauna covering New Earth. Included in this post are only those most notable on each continent. As I come up with more animals this list will be updated.

Anilex:  The animals on Anilex have slowly changed over time as Decepticons made more changes and developments to Earth. When North America collided with South America and Greenland, many different species came together. On Anilex, there are the standard small, woodland creatures from all the continents, but there are also very large animals. There are not very many ‘large animals’ on Anilex, mainly because the Decepticons killed many species off to make the continent easier to control. They left behind many domesticated farm animals to be used as labor with the human slaves.

Horse

Grizzly bear

Panther

Deer/Elk

Dire Wolves

Ikran (yes, I stole the name from Avatar until I can make one of my own)

Musk oxen (in the north)

Polar bear

Tyrus:

Deer/Elk

Bears

Dire Wolves

Alaba:

Hippos

Elephants

Antelope/Willdebeest

Crocodile

Deimari:

Elk

Akos:

Giant Freaking Penguins

Seals

Zirve:

Polar Bears

Seals

Ocean Things: